For the past few years, an avalanche of aggressive mailers and phone calls has engulfed veterans and servicemembers taking out VA home loans, attempting to lure them into serial mortgage refinancing schemes that benefit lenders and bury borrowers.

During their service, the five very good military dogs who received American Humane’s Lois Pope K-9 Medal of Courage to America uncovered improvised explosive devices, sniffed out weapons caches, survived ambushes, saved lives, protected a president, and boosted morale.

The January SEAL Team Six raid in Yemen proceeded despite overhead surveillance indicating the mission was compromised and ultimately did not yield significant intelligence for the counterterrorism campaign against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), according to an investigation by NBC News released Oct 1.